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From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
Date: Wed Nov 6 13:40:00 2002

The Los Angeles Times last weekend had a nice little article on the
guy who invented Pai Gow poker. He was initially advised that games
based on the common 52 card deck were not patentable, and only
learned otherwise when people made successfull patents on variations
of Pai Gow and it was too late for him. Apparently casinos pay a
royalty for every table that plays a patented game, and worldwide
that is something like $70k/month he missed out on.
Received on Wed Nov 06 2002 - 13:40:00 GMT